--- title: 'More Money Thursday roundup: IRS hangups & the best ways to cut your travel costs in 2010' description: 'Personal finance from around the web: Need to get a tax question answered by the IRS? The agency answers calls only 71% of the time.…' authors: - name: timestaff url: https://money.com/author/timestaff/ articles: 459 covers: - Taxes - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping former_staff: true published: '2010-01-07T23:59:39.000Z' modified: '2024-05-07T08:38:59.000Z' section: Taxes word_count: 199 canonical: https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-irs-hangups-the-best-ways-to-cut-your-travel-costs-in-2010/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![More Money Thursday roundup: IRS hangups & the best ways to cut your travel costs in 2010](https://money.com/img/logo-social.png) Personal finance from around the web: - Need to get a tax question answered by the IRS? [The agency answers calls only 71% of the time](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010601485.html). And if you're lucky enough to get through, you'll spend an average of 12 minutes on hold. \[The Washington Post\] - If your old cell phones, cameras and MP3 players are collecting dust now that Santa brought you the latest gadgets, [here's what to do with your castoffs](http://www.mint.com/blog/goals/how-to-recycle-old-gadgets/). \[MintLife\] - Financial new year's resolutions are the rage for 2010, according to a Fidelity survey. But one blogger argues that it's the "bad guys" -- banks, credit card companies and big employers -- who need to shape up this year. Here are [seven new year's resolutions for them](http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/consumer-reporter/7-new-years-resolutions-for-the-bad-guy/482/?tag=col1;blog-river). \[Fidelity, The Consumer Reporter\] - 2009 was full of travel deals, but this year might not offer as many bargains. These [10 ways to cut your travel costs this year](http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/travel/10pracsave.html?ref=travel) will help. \[The New York Times\] - Public sector pensions aren't a bad idea simply because they create fiscal time bombs; they also create incentives for unmotivated employees to stay in their jobs and talented workers to stay out of government service. \[Matthew Yglesias\] *Follow More Money on Twitter at [http://twitter.com/moremoneyblog](http://twitter.com/moremoneyblog)*. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-irs-hangups-the-best-ways-to-cut-your-travel-costs-in-2010/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Taxes", "item": "https://money.com/taxes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "IRS", "item": "https://money.com/irs/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "More Money Thursday roundup: IRS hangups & the best ways to cut your travel costs in 2010" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-irs-hangups-the-best-ways-to-cut-your-travel-costs-in-2010/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-irs-hangups-the-best-ways-to-cut-your-travel-costs-in-2010/", "name": "More Money Thursday roundup: IRS hangups & the best ways to cut your travel costs in 2010", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2010-01-07T23:59:39.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-irs-hangups-the-best-ways-to-cut-your-travel-costs-in-2010/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-irs-hangups-the-best-ways-to-cut-your-travel-costs-in-2010/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-07T08:38:59.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "More Money Thursday roundup: IRS hangups & the best ways to cut your travel costs in 2010", "articleSection": "Taxes", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://money.com/img/logo-social.png", "width": 300, "height": 300 } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "timestaff", "url": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/#author" } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2010-01-07T23:59:39.000Z", "description": "Personal finance from around the web: Need to get a tax question answered by the IRS? 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